Susan Elston Wallace was one of the nine children born to Isaac & Maria Elston. One of her sisters was Helen Elston Blair, who built the Gothic Revival home at the corner of Wallace and Wabash in Crawfordsville. Helen had a niece named Rose Blair Marsh. Rose came to know […]
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The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum is holding a Civil War Trust Park Day event on Saturday, April 5, 9:00 am – noon. Grounds Manager Deb King organizes the event, which is the only such event in Indiana. Park Day has been celebrated since 1996 at Civil War-related sites across […]
Our community soccer event isn’t taking place on the Study lawn, but it does have Lew Wallace connections! Meredith Nicholson school is named after someone Lew knew, and the sponsor Indy 11 is named after Lew’s 11th Indiana Regiment! Maybe next time we can have soccer here on the lawn! […]
To coincide with our exhibit Vindication: Lew Wallace in 1864, we’re excited to present a great line-up of Civil War lectures, beginning this month and running through November. This coming Wednesday, March 19, Scott Busenbark of Crawfordsville will be speaking on the role Brown Township played in the Civil War. […]
In 1864, Maryland had a series of important elections, resulting in emancipation of Maryland’s slaves. Lew Wallace was instrumental in making sure the elections went smoothly without interference. Over the course of the war, Lew had become an abolitionist. In an 1862 speech Lew gave in Evansville, he said, “this […]
The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum is opening the 2014 season with a new exhibit entitled “Vindication: Lew Wallace in 1864.” 1864 was a pivotal year for the course of the Civil War and Lew Wallace’s life. Abraham Lincoln posted Lew in Baltimore, Maryland, while Maryland voted on the […]
For Presidents Day, we thought we would talk about some of the US Presidents Lew knew during his life. Former curator Joann Spragg was once asked about the Presidents that General Wallace knew—beginning with William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, she began listing them. Wallace probably knew (and had opinions about) […]
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Lew’s death in 1905. Lew died at his home in Crawfordsville on February 15. Wallace Scholar Chandler Lighty at the Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization Project has a great blog post about Lew Wallace’s obituary. The post collects several of Lew’s obituaries from across the country. […]
The snow is coming down fast and furious today. It snowed overnight and it’s been snowing all morning. With the winter weather advisory extending until 6 p.m. we’ve decided to close the Study early. And that’s it for our 2013 season. We’ve had a great year, and we are already […]